UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFICSTATISTICAL INSTITUTE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (SIAP)
Regional Course on the Supply and Use Tables
Chiba, Japan; 20-24 January 2020

CONCEPT NOTE
Collaborating agencies: United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP); United Nations
Statistics Division (UNDESA SD) and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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Introduction and Objectives
The Supply and Use Tables (SUTs) are an essential part of System of National Accounts 2008 (2008SNA). SUTs bring together the components of each of the three approaches of GDP estimation
namely, the production, income and expenditure. Statisticians use the SUTs as a balancing
framework that reconciles these three approaches to eliminate the differences and produce
reliable and accurate GDP estimates. When SUTs are linked with the institutional sector accounts
through common statistical units, they further ensure the overall quality, consistency andcoherency of the national accounts. Annual compilation of SUTs is one of the recommended data
sets according to the 2008 SNA.
The SUTs describe how products (goods and services) are brought into an economy (either as aresult of domestic production or imports from other countries) and recorded in the Supply Table,
and how those same products are used (as intermediate consumption, household finalconsumption, non-profit institutions serving households, general government final consumption,
gross capital formation and exports) and recorded in the Use Table. The SUTs also provide thelink between components of Gross Value Added (GVA), industry inputs and industry outputs.
In SUTs, the total use in the use table must be equal to the total supply in the supply table foreach product. SUTs serve primarily statistical purposes and provide an integrated framework forchecking consistency and completeness of data. SUTs are also used to derive the input-output
table for the purpose of economic impact analysis and forecasting.
The main objective of this course is to develop the knowledge and skills of participants on thecompilation and dissemination of SUTs. Participants will also share the challenges they face andsuggest practical solutions to continue the work in the compilation of SUTs.

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Target Countries
The course is designed for the countries in Asia and the Pacific region which are planning to use
Supply and Use framework for their SNA compilation, and which are currently developing andupdating their SUTs align with SNA 2008.
Countries: Afghanistan; Armenia; Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Fiji; Georgia; Hong Kong China;
Indonesia; Maldives; Taipei, China; Thailand; Uzbekistan; Vietnam

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Target Participants
The course is designed for statisticians who are currently, directly, and substantially involved in
the compilation of national accounts and Supply and Use Tables.

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Course Content and Design:This 5-day course consists of four modules: Brief Introduction of analytical and statisticalusefulness of SUTs; Compilation and dissemination of SUTs in line with the 2008 SNA; IT tools forthe compilation of SUTs; and Strategy for implementation. Sessions will be covered in the course
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Importance of Supply and Use Tables and Input Output Tables
Overview of SUTs and the statistical process for their compilation
Compilation of Supply Table
Compilation of Use Table
Compilation of Valuation Matrices
Compilation of Import use table and Domestic use table
Compiling SUTs in volume terms
Balancing SUTs
IT tools for the compilation of SUTs
Other considerations for the compilation of SUTs

Sessions will be conducted in English and no translations will be provided to the participants.
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Preparatory Activities
Participants to the course need to compile following data/worksheets and share with theresource person by first week of January 2020.
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Gross output by product and by industry
Imports by product
Trade margin by productTransport margin by productTaxes less subsidies on product by productIntermediate consumption by product and by industry
Household final consumption expenditure by product
General government final consumption expenditure by producti.

Nonprofit Institutions Serving Households (NPISH) consumption expenditure byproductj. Gross fixed capital formation by productk. Changes in inventories by productl. Acquisition less disposal of valuables by productm. Exports by productn. Gross value added by industryo. Compensation of employees by industry
p. Taxes less subsidies on production by industry
q. Gross operating surplus/mixed income by industry
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Reference Material
Recommended Reading
OECD (2014) Understanding National Accounts http://www.oecd.org/sdd/UNA-2014.pdf
UNSD (2018) Handbook on Supply, Use and Input-Output Tables with Extensions andApplications https://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/docs/SUT_IOT_HB_wc.pdf
Handout on best practices in compiling SUTs and IOTs https://unstats.un.org/Unsd/nationalaccount/workshops/2018/beijing/Handout.pdf
Other references
UN and ECB (2015) Financial Production, Flows and Stocks in the System of National Accounts
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/handbookofnationalaccounting2014en.pdf
Eurostat-OECD (2017) Compilation Guide on Inventories
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3859598/8228095/KS-GQ-17-005-EN-N.pdf
IMF (2017) Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manualhttps://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/bop/2007/pdf/bpm6.pdf